Kham then and now. A photoblog showing how eastern Tibet looked in the 1920s and how the same places and people look now. Based on the explorations of botanist Joseph Rock.
Friday, February 04, 2005
Joseph Rock's room preserved
This is a picture taken by a visitor to the "house of Joseph Rock" museum in Yuhu. Whehter it is really his old room is not clear. One local told me the house had been rebuilt as a museum.
Dr Joseph Rock was an Austrian-American botanist who explored the Tibetan borderlands of Sichuan and Yunnan in the 1920s and 30s. This is about my travels to revisit the places he described in the National Geographic magazine. Any questions? contact me at beijingweek AT gmail
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